Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The historic Göta Canal was built in Sweden to let ships avoid the Øresund and its high Danish tolls. The Habshan–Fujairah pipeline dodges the Hormuz tolls. 020
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Everyone's asking why Britain still holds Gibraltar and Spain still holds Ceuta. Watch what's happening in Hormuz right now — that's your answer 100
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 03/04/2026with LLM is has become cheap to produce text, at the same time, due to cell phones, nobody reads anymore. 130
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 05/02/2026In the 1980s, Europe adopted terms such as super, turbo, mega, and giga. In the following decades, smart became dominant, giving us smartphones, smart TVs, smart cities, and smart homes. Today, AI is taking over, with products like AI washing machines and AI toothbrushes. What's next 130
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Things I learned today: klapkrat. a box that folds. 020
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Afspraak op 7 januari om 3uur s'nachts voor 2026 gemist. (stiekem met je gedanst) 020
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Automatic blinds at the National Gallery in Edinburgh are an art work itself. 1142
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 08/08/2025SISC published our paper on RESQPASS where subspaces are combined with constrained optimization to solver the Bounded Variable least squares problem. After a few iterations, where the bounds are discovered, the method behaves as a Krylov subspace. epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1... 030
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Washington - Judiciary square. There is something broken here. 010
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 04/08/2025these masses next to this building in Santiago de Chile are they earthquake dampers? 110
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 19/07/2025What is more destructive? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_K... or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach...en.wikipedia.orgMonte Kali - Wikipedia 000
Wim Vanroose @vanroose.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Grateful to Householder committee for the opportunity to explain the ResQPASS algorithm at Householder symposium XXII at Cornell University --- Ithaca, NY USA. The paper, co-auther with Bas Symoens ( arxiv.org/abs/2302.13616 ), has been accepted for publication in SISC. 131
